In last Tuesday’s OHSL Freedom division track and field meet between Chittenango and Phoenix, the Bears ended up with a split, prevailing 78-59 on the girls side while falling to the Firebirds 91-50 in the boys meet.
McKenzie Dombroski won twice for Chittenango’s girls team, going 1,500 meters in 5:25.8 and then winning the 3,000-meter run in 12:04.2. Also, in the 4×800 relay, Dombroski paired with Hayley Foran, Alyssa Crystal and Devin Gordon for first place in 11:23.7.
Haylee Roberts swept through the long jump, going 14 feet 9 inches, and the triple jump, where she won with a leap of 31’8 ¾”. Kailei Brayton was victorious in the shot put (22’10 ¾”) and Sarah Loucks threw the discus 66’4 ½” to win there.
Kendria Moore was first in the 100 hurdles in 17.7 seconds as Kaitlyn Swain won the 400-meter dash in 1:03.2 and Mia Morgillo took the 400 hurdles in 1:22.5.
All of the boys wins for Chittenango came on the track, where Jacob Blaszkow ran the mile in 4:56.4 and took the 3,200-meter run in 10:49 flat. Tyler Howard took the 110 high hurdles in 16.4 seconds as Nick Stanton won the 400 sprint in 53.4 seconds.
Also, the Bears won two of three relays. Blaszkow, Willy Blanding, Caleb Seale and Dylan Price were victorious in the 4×800 in 8:41.3 before Stanton joined Beley, Phillip Abell and Jacobi Dwyer to take the 4×400 in 3:44.4.
The Firebirds countered by winning all of the field events, two of them by Sean Madden in the long jump (19’5 ½”) and triple jump (40’1 ¼”) as Chris Fisk cleared 11 feet in the pole vault and also won the 400 hurdles in 1:00.1.
Three days later, each of the Chittenango sides made their way to the Oneida Invitational, where the boys and girls Bears each finished ninth in fields of 23 (boys) and 20 (girls), with Jamesville-DeWitt taking the boys team championship and Whitesboro doing the same on the girls side.
Howard, in the boys 110 hurdles, was runner-up in the 110 high hurdles in 16.01 seconds to Homer’s Paul Morse, who won in 15.88 seconds. In the 400 hurdles, Davie, in 1:01.80, was in second place, narrowly trailing Homer’s Paddy Fox (1:01.57) at the line, with Davie also seventh in the long ju mp, going 19’1 ½”.
Blaszkow, Abell, Blanding and Price got to second place in the 4×800, though the Bears’ time of 8:47.89 was far back of Adirondack’s winning 8:32.18. Stanton got to fourth place in the 400 sprint in 52.78 seconds, adding a fifth-place time of 23.77 seconds in the 200.
For the girls Bears, Kaitlyn Swain provided the big moment in the 400 sprint, getting under a minute to win in 59.89 seconds as Rome Free Academy’s Kayla Barber was second in 1:00.53.
Krissy Roberts rose to third place in the long jump with a top leap of 15’10 ¼” before finishing ninth in the triple jump. Moore was fifth in the 100 hurdles in 17.55 seconds. Dombroski took seventh in the 3,000 and, paired with Crystal, Foran and Jada Sowich, was sixth in the 4×800 in 11:06.88.
